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Chapter 8: Sakura's First Fight!
As Sakura and Deidara walked down the dark stairs she could hear moans and groans of pain and sadness coming from the depths of each cell. They reached the bottom of the long staircase and Sakura could see a long ominous hallway. Cells lined the hallway packed with frightened prisoners. The smell of death and blood permeated the halls. Sakura had to hold in the urge to throw up. "Oh sweet ancestors this is horrible!" Serenity said horrified. Sakura could not answer; only follow Deidara down the barley lit hallway. She knew she couldn't show any emotion or Deidara would notice. As they walked she noticed men, women, and children back as far back in their cells as possible, fear permanently etched across each of their faces.
"I can't even image what they have been through. How long they have been here." Serenity said concern laced in her voice. Deidara and Sakura finally reached a break in the rows of cells and found themselves looking at a big round space lined with candles hanging around the circle. The space was big enough for them to spar. Sakura looked to her left and right, noticing on both sides were other long hallways lined with cells. "Who knows how many prisoners are here, this dungeon is huge." She observed. It was a great place for sparing though. "A lot of prisoners." She said out loud, trying to sound as uncaring and cold as possible. Deidara turned and smiled at her. "Yep. What can I say; we have lot of people that hate the Akatsuki yeah." Sakura could feel Serenity shiver deep within her at the malicious answer.
Deidara walked to the other side of the circle and faced her. "Ready, yeah?" Sakura took a fighting stance. "I won't go easy on you." She warned. Deidara smirked, reaching into his small pack of clay. The mouth on his hand opened and released the tongue that snaked around a small piece of clay and bringing it into the mouth. He than brought his hand up to his face, watching the mouth on his hand chew the clay and infuse it with chakra like explosives. "What is he doing?" Sakura thought. Serenity stirred inside her head. "Sakura-Chan don't let him finish that technique! He uses explosives somehow through that small mouth on his hand." She warned. Keep close. Got it. She immediately ran towards him, bringing her right arm behind her, making a fist. She channeled her chakra though her arm down to her hand. Deidara faced his hand towards her, the small mouth opening and small clay balls infused with chakra shooting towards her.
Sakura's medical training kicked in, judging the speed and movement of the clay balls she moved with impressive speed to avoid them. They hit the wall behind her, exploding behind her which only propelled her movement towards him. Deidara smirk widened, not fazed by her ability to dodge them. He jumped away from her deadly fist and twisted in the air, throwing five kunai towards her. Sakura turned to where he had jumped away, stopping just from hitting the wall and releasing the balled up chakra stored in her fist, back into her body. She saw the kunai coming and dodged to the side. Deidara fell to the ground watching Sakura easily dodge his kunai. "Not bad dodging my clay bombs, yeah." He approved smirking. Sakura looked at him, matching his smirk. "Keep on him. You don't know what he will do next." Serenity coached. Sakura brought her hands up, making five seals. Tiger → Horse → Rabbit → Rat → Dog, "Chakura no Mesu!"(Chakra Scalpel) She screamed. Her hands began to glow around her hand shaping into sharp points just over her fingers. She then ran towards him once more making slicing motions with her hands. Deidara lost his smirk, moving as best he could away from the sharp points. Sakura continued to jab at him, finally landing a blow to the shoulder running him back against the wall. Deidara grunted in pain. "Oi! Alright I loose, I loose!" he shouted shielding himself with his good arm.
Sakura canceled the Jutsu and moved her hand away from his arm. "Are you even trying?" She scolded? Deidara covered his wound with his hand. "I haven't eaten! I'm out of energy and you hurt me!" He whined. Sakura sweat dropped. "Uhm ok wasn't expecting that from an s ranked criminal." "Well let me heal that arm and then we can go get something to eat." She suggested. "You're a medic ninja then huh? I was wondering how you could dodge my bombs so easily, yeah" Deidara said. Sakura smiled. "Yes I can't really afford to take a lot of damage from attacks when I need to get across to the battlefield to heal a fallen Ninja." She said healing his wound, a light green chakra emitting from her hand as she kept her hand steady over the wound. When she finished they walked back down the long hallway and up the stairs, though the bookcase and made their way to the kitchen. "I would have been in trouble if those bombs of his would have hit me." She told Serenity. Serenity cleared her throat dramatically in Sakura's head. "Ha-ha of course your help was very much needed." She assured her.
Sakura and Deidara stepped into the kitchen to find Kisame sitting at the impossibly long table, looking very hungry. He looked up when they entered and smiled at them, showing her his razor sharp shark like teeth. They both stopped and Sakura nodded her head towards him, analogizing his presence. "Ah well if it isn't our new member, Sakura was it?" He asked. "Yes." She said heading towards the fridge. She opened it up and looked inside to see what was edible. Kisame watched her and laughed when she pulled out a large stack of seaweed and made a face at it. "Oh Kisame not again leader doesn't like it when you put seaweed in out fridge yeah." Deidara scolded. Sakura looked at him with disbelief. "You.. Eat this?" She said slowly. Kisame let out a bark of a laugh getting up from his chair and walking to her. "It's for my pets." He said taking the seaweed from her and putting it back into the fridge. "..Okay..." she said weirdly. She continued to look into the fridge when suddenly Kisame said her name. She turned toward him. "What?" She asked. "Make me lunch." He said. They watched each other for a few seconds. Him waiting for an answer, she dumbfounded. The moment ended when Deidara appeared to the side of them. "She is making me something to eat!" He pouted. Kisame turned to him, teeth snapping together. "Don't start with me runt." He warned. Sakura held her hand up stopping an argument in its tracks. "Hold on! I can make food for both of you. How about chicken noodle soup?" She said spying perfect ingredients for soup. Both men turned to her. "Sounds great!" They said in unison. They glared at each other than glared away. Sakura smiled weakly. "Please gentlemen take a seat."
It took about a half hour to make the soup, all the while Sakura had to listen to Kisame and Deidara argue. She took out three bowls and filled them to the brim with chicken noodle soup, making sure at Kisame's request to have the most cubes of chicken. She than placed the bowls with spoons and cups of water in front of the men and her side and sat down. They ate silently until Kisame asked her a few questions about her past. Deidara then joined in with questions of his own. She answered them with a simple sentence or two, not wanting to go into detail for fear she would say something she didn't want out. They finished their meal and Sakura got up and washed out the dishes and put away the bowls. She heard Deidara thank her for the meal and Kisame follow him to the door when she stopped them. "Wait." She said taking a step towards them. They stopped and turned around to face the pink haired kunoichi. "I want to fight you Kisame." She said calmly. "Sakura Chan are you sure? He won't be nearly as easy at Deidara." Serenity sounded worried. Sakura ignored her, watching the two Akatsuki members. "I came here to get stronger. I need to train and learn new Jutsus and I think I should start with him since Deidara was no challenge. I can do this!" Kisame and Sakura started at one another for a long moment. Deidara watched Sakura, smirking. "Time to see how strong I am and go from there!"
~Well that's all this time! Thank you guys very much for being patient with me. Next chapter is going to be very exciting! I will be posting by next Wednesday hope you liked this chapter! Remember no flames are accepted!
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